We need some global warming...

[St Leo]

My brain stops working at anything warmer than 19 C (66 F). Summers in Toronto are too damn hot.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by St Leo
My brain stops working at anything warmer than 19 C (66 F).

That makes you a troll

At least according to Pratchett.

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by St Leo
My brain stops working at anything warmer than 19 C (66 F). Summers in Toronto are too damn hot.

What I would give for a 19 degree day right now....

I've always wondered about the relationship of temperature to brain activity... I heard somewhere that beethoven used to regularly dunk his head in a bucket of ice whilst composing... and I definitely seem more mentally active during winter.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Qilue


Hey, it's Theban! Spare a thought also for the poor american scientists who must constantly convert between the two because the scientific community in other countries uses a modern system of measurement.

modern doesn't necessarily mean better

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dracon II
I've always wondered about the relationship of temperature to brain activity... I heard somewhere that beethoven used to regularly dunk his head in a bucket of ice whilst composing... and I definitely seem more mentally active during winter.

There's a reason why you are a warm blooded animal.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Spec


No, That's the weed talkin.

Weed talks now? Where have I been for the last 25 years?

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


There's a reason why you are a warm blooded animal.

Precisely... we have internal heating for the purpose of surviving in cold climates....

[Odin]

Originally posted by Lancer

sun induced global warming?

Oh, please tell me you don't really believe that. idiots have been bantering that BS for a while now, and it has no merit. the sun's brightness does change, but not a significant amount during the timescale of human history, and certainly in scales too long to be implicated in climate change.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


There's a reason why you are a warm blooded animal.

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actually, warm-bloodedness evolved as an adaptation to increase activity levels, the abillity to live in cold climates was a serindipidious bonus.

[Lancer]

"Oh, please tell me you don't really believe that. idiots have been bantering that BS for a while now, and it has no merit. the sun's brightness does change, but not a significant amount during the timescale of human history, and certainly in scales too long to be implicated in climate change."

Sure, all this crap we put in the air is a major factor in global warming, but other factors may contribute. Otherwise why would Mars be coming out of an ice age? Too many outboard motorboats in the canals?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Lancer
Mars be coming out of an ice age? Too many outboard motorboats in the canals?

Coincidence, the warming on Mars is probably a result of the same kind of precessional and tilt cycles that cause the glacial-interglacial cycle on earth. We are in a stage in the cycles where we should be slowly cooling toward the next glaciation (indeed we had been untill 100 years ago), not rapidly warming.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Qilue
Spare a thought also for the poor american scientists who must constantly convert between the two because the scientific community in other countries uses a modern system of measurement.

American science uses the metric system. I don't even know any formulas for science using imperial.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dracon II
Precisely... we have internal heating for the purpose of surviving in cold climates....

No, no, no Being warm blooded means your body temperature stays constant, more or less. Which means your brain's temperature is about the same whether it is cold or hot outside.

Within certain limits, of course.